Jonathan completed a writing activity on St. Patrick’s Day. In this activity he had to pretend he found a pot of gold and write what he would do with it. After that, we reviewed nouns and adjectives. He was shown a picture of a leprechaun and listed adjectives describing him. Using these adjectives he created a sentences about this leprechaun.

We worked on some basic "say it play it" rhythms using words and phrases related to tropical birds in which Jonathan showed some interest. He was able to be very creative in coming up with some of his own rhythms based upon the syllabic flow and cadence of the spoken phrases and words. We worked on some hand coordination necessary to begin playing basic drum beats.

Jonathan was not present for his session today in advance of temporary school closing.

Jonathan and I worked on creating the symbols that would be added to his Pokemon reference website.

Johnathan read, “The High-Rise Private Eyes #: The Case of the Missing Monkey”. Following his reading of the book he completed a story mapping activity which included listing the setting, characters, problem and solution.

Jonathan was instructed to open Photoshop and import his Pokemon image into a 12" by 12" template. We printed out the template and placed it onto a piece of wood. I took Jonathan outside and we placed nails to create the layout for his string art.

We had a busy Friday session! First, we worked diligently on our nonfiction text features project. Jonathan used the three sections of his table of contents as source to draw three illustrations to accompany each page of his writing. He then made bold words on each page to coincide with his illustrations. He drew himself playing tennis (something about himself), playing Mario Odyssey (one of his favorite games), and himself as a paleontologist (his big dream). We made a special pocket to hold the illustrations. He used markers to accent each piece. We then assembled all of the pieces for this project on colored card stock to put it all together. It turned out awesome! For literature, we read chapters 9 & 10 in our novel, Pirates Past Dawn. We finally learned how the enchantress Morgan le Fay has been helping the children! As we wrapped up our session, Jonathan completed a crossword puzzle to recap the events of these chapters.

We reviewed vocabulary of plants, plant parts, and functions that we've focused on in prior lessons and completed a chart and picture detailing the plant parts and what functions they serve to helping the plant grow and flourish. We also began a preliminary discussion of photosynthesis and how essential it is for life on Earth. Photosynthesis was explained as the process in which green plants use sunlight to make their own food. Jonathan learned that green plants use light energy from the sun to change water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and nutrients called sugar. Jonathan was also introduced the topic of bees and pollination which we will examine in later sessions.

This morning, we went over Jonathan's homework and reviewed a tricky question. Jonathan immediately saw the reason for his error, which was that one end of the objects being ordered by length was not aligned. Once he noted that not all the objects were aligned the same, he immediately recognized which answer was correct and changed his answer. He then worked on problems tasking him with ordering objects by length and deciding if the amounts or sizes were greater than, less than, or = each other. Through guided instruction and practice, Jonathan is beginning to recognize and understand the need for standard units of measurement. We finished the session working on comparing greater, lesser, or equal amounts using the mathematical signs, >, <, and =. Jonathan did well with that and answered all the questions correctly when assessed. I sent the copy home with him in his blue binder.

Religion: Today we finished chapter 25 in Jonathan’s We Believe textbook. Our lesson today focused on how we honor all the saints of the Church. We discussed that there are many saints who loved God very much. They put God first in their lives and tried to be kind and fair. We work to live like the saints and share God’s peace with others. Jonathan drew a picture of a way to honor his mom (help with the dishes) and a way to honor Mary (pray). He then scored 5/5 on the follow up assessment for this chapter. Language Arts: We worked through two days of our daily language review. Jonathan did a great job catching the capitalization and punctuation errors today! For literature, we read chapter 8 in our novel, Pirates Past Dawn. We studied the word swine today by examining how it’s used in the book, what Jonathan thought it meant, and then we looked it up in the dictionary. He then drew a picture of the treasure chest that Jack found. In the story, Jack did not open the chest, however Jonathan drew an alternate ending to show him opening the chest and what he might discover. Jonathan scored a 10/12 on his spelling test for words focused on our book. He also got his bonus word (through) correct. We ended the session with some practice with prepositions and filling in the blank to complete the sentences using the proper preposition. For the rest of our time today, Jonathan participated in a school-wide art and talent show activity.